Bert Huijben wrote:
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Blair Zajac [mailto:blair_at_orcaware.com]
>> Sent: dinsdag 2 maart 2010 1:47
>> To: hwright_at_apache.org
>> Cc: dev_at_subversion.apache.org
>> Subject: Re: svn commit: r917772 - in
>> /subversion/trunk/subversion/bindings/javahl: native/
>> src/org/apache/subversion/javahl/callback/ src/org/tigris/subversion/javahl/
>> tests/org/apache/subversion/javahl/
>>
>> On 03/01/2010 02:46 PM, hwright_at_apache.org wrote:
>>> Author: hwright
>>> Date: Mon Mar 1 22:46:45 2010
>>> New Revision: 917772
>>>
>>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=917772&view=rev>>> Log:
>>> JavaHL: Return properties as byte[] throughout the callback interfaces.
>>>
>>> We use byte[] in place of String because there could be binary data in the
>>> property, and the conversion to String would truncate the property at any
>>> NULL bytes.
>>
>> Plus the conversion from byte[] to String depends upon the platform's
>> default character set.
>>
>> I see there's a number of String's constructed from the byte[]. Those
>> methods should take an additional java.nio.charset.Charset and then pass
>> it's name to the String() constructor. I don't believe there should be
>> any String's constructed without a Charset argument.
>>
>> Maybe the svn:date we can presume a UTF-8 character set, but the
>> svn:author, svn:log we shouldn't.
>
> For the svn:* properties we currently define we declared that they always use utf-8 and use '\n' as line ending. Clients are responsible for handling the conversions. See svn_prop_needs_translation() for more details. (Since 1.6 we even validate this on the filesystem or ra layer).

OK. So I believe we should add "UTF-8" as an additional constructor parameter
to String for the svn:* properties.